One of the caveats attached to running an illegal operation of any kind is that you can’t run to the authorities for help when someone threatens your livelihood. Such appears to be the lesson that Silk Road operators learned the…

Lizard Squad, the hacker group that took down Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network on Christmas Day and then tried to cash in on its fame by selling the distributed denial-of-service service they used in the attacks, has received a…

Law enforcement officials in the UK, in cooperation with the FBI, have arrested an 18-year-old man in connection with DDoS attacks that took down Sony’s PlayStation Network and Microsoft’s Xbox Live service on Christmas Day.

Lizard Squad, the group of hackers responsible for knocking Microsoft’s Xbox Live and Sony’s PlayStation Network offline during the holidays, began offering its DDoS attack as an on-demand service earlier this month to anyone willing to pay their nominal fees.
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Lizard Squad, the hacking collective that took credit for the recent Xbox Live and PlayStation Network outage, is now selling the DDoS service they used in the attacks to anyone who is willing to pay for it.

Sony Pictures is still reeling from the hack on its computer network in which a group calling itself the Guardians of Peace made off with loads of personal data on employees and celebrities. The sensitive data has since shown up…

Bitcoin has reached yet another milestone. Unfortunately, it's one that could pose a major security risk. Researchers from Cornell University have discovered that for the first time in the cryptocurrency’s five-year history, a single entity has – on multiple occasions – been…

Evernote announced yesterday that its online services suffered disruption after being hit by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. The popular notetaking service took to Twitter to make the announcement.

Cyber criminals have recently targeted several small technology startups with an aim to extort money. According to a New York Times report, startups like Meetup, Vimeo, Basecamp, Bit.ly, Shutterstock, and more, have already been hit by such attacks.

China found itself on the receiving end of a massive denial-of-service attack this weekend that reportedly disrupted and slowed access to millions of websites, including major properties like Amazon.cn, Sina’s social networking site Weibo and Bank of China. According to…

Denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks can bring down an internet network for hours, preventing its users from accessing a particular service altogether. Although the motives behind these type of attacks vary, analyst Avivah Litan of Gartner says that in recent months, criminals…

Law enforcement officials in Spain have arrested a Dutch man they believe is linked to cyber attacks that took place last month. The man was arrested at his home in Barcelona at the request of Dutch authorities. Police seized his…

If you felt like your Internet connection slowed down recently, it wasn’t just you. A recent spat between a spam-fighting group and a web hosting company caused a global slowdown of the Internet according to an anti-spam organization. What resulted…

Iran is being blamed for a recent wave of cyberattacks, namely a series of Distributed Denial of Service attacks launched against major financial institutions. Affected financial institutions include, but may not be limited to, Bank of America, Chase, Citigroup, Wells Fargo,…

The loose knit group of hackers that call themselves Anonymous have petitioned the White House in an effort to get distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks recognized as a legal form of protest. The hackers argue that DDoS attacks are not a…

A jury has convicted 22-year old Anonymous hacktivist Christopher Weatherhead for playing a lead role in organizing a series of distributed denial of service attacks against PayPal (and others) in 2010. Weatherhead's cohorts, Peter Gibson, Jake Bichall and Ashley Rhodes,…

Last week, Wikileaks released internal documents and emails obtained by hackers regarding TrapWire, a privately-owned surveillance technology utilized by various private and public agencies. It appears TrapWire works by collecting surveillance data from participating private and public sources (CCTV cameras,…

Fresh details emerging this week have helped answer some ongoing questions about the orchestrated takedown of Demonoid. Knocked offline by a DDoS attack on July 24, early reports suggested that the torrent tracker's downtime would be somewhat temporary, pending repairs…

Demonoid, the Internet's largest combined BitTorrent site and tracker, has been shutdown in one of the biggest BitTorrent-related busts in recent times, according to TorrentFreak. ColoCall, the Ukrainian datacenter who hosts Demonoid, was forced to relinquish Demonoid's data to local…

In what is said to be its largest outage in eight months, Twitter experienced several service interruptions Thursday afternoon, with one outage lasting at least 40 minutes according to various reports. Data from analyst firms such as Sandvine, Apica and Pingdom show sporadic downtime...

In what can only be described as a bit ironic, The Pirate Bay has been taken down not by court order of ISP blockades but by a DDoS attack of unknown origin. The popular torrent sharing site has been sidelined for the better part of...

Kaspersky Labs has compiled data collected by its botnet monitoring and DDoS protection services and written a detailed analysis on their findings. The verdict? The second half of 2011 was a bumpy six months with distributed denial of service attacks…